Charge-coupled device imaging system for precision beam steering in    laser communications

Homayoon Ansari; L. Howard Roberts

doi:10.1117/12.212905

1 November 1995 Charge-coupled device imaging system for precision beam steering in laser communications

Homayoon Ansari, L. Howard Roberts

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 34, Issue 11, (November 1995). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.212905

Abstract

A CCD imaging system has been developed for precision laser beam pointing. The system contains a high frame rate CCD camera operated in windowing mode under command of an embedded processor. A laser pointing and tracking update rate of 2 kHz has been achieved.

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Homayoon Ansari and L. Howard Roberts "Charge-coupled device imaging system for precision beam steering in laser communications," Optical Engineering 34(11), (1 November 1995). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.212905

Published: 1 November 1995

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